Many / One

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1		"The sum of all things being the Good, it is natural that all things should partake of the Good and be arranged in combinations that are harmonious. Harmony is the manifesting expression of the Will of the eternal Good."

2		"While physically bound to earth (of which his blood and bones are part), there is nevertheless within man a spiritual power, a diviner Self, through which he is one with the symphony of the Whole."

3		"God writes His will upon the face of celestial and terrestrial Nature. With this language we read God's will for all His creatures."

4		"The ancients believed that the theory of humanity's being made in the image of God was to be understood literally. They maintained that the universe was a great organism not unlike the human body, and that every phase and function of the Universal Body had a correspondence in humanity."

5		"The fiat of God is heard in the voice of the elements, and all things in Nature manifest through harmony, rhythm, order."

6		"This world is but the shadow of God….All that is in the invisible archetypal sphere is revealed in the sensible corporeal world by the light of Nature."

7		"The universe is made up of successive gradations of good."

8		"The power to think true is the savior of humanity. The mythological and historical Redeemers of every age were all personifications of that power."

9		"Within the nature of man is reflected the entire universe in miniature."

10		"Man's nature – consisting of his physical organism, his emotional nature, and his mental faculties – reflects the light of his Divinity and bears witness of It in the physical world."

11		“To the Gnostics, the Christ was the personification of the Divine Mind.”

12		"The criers of the Mysteries speak again, bidding all people welcome to the House of Light. The great institution of materiality has failed. The false civilization built by humanity has turned, and like the monster of Frankenstein, is destroying its creator. Religion wanders aimlessly in the maze of theological speculation. Science batters itself impotently against the barriers of the unknown. Only transcendental philosophy knows the path. Only the illumined reason can carry the understanding part of humanity upward to the light. Only philosophy can teach us to be born well, to die well, and in perfect measure be born again. Into this band – those who have chosen the life of knowledge, of virtue, and of utility – the philosophers of the ages invite you."

13		"The trend of man's evolutionary growth is ever toward his own essential Selfhood."

14		"Forms are the symbols of formless divine principles; symbolism is the language of Nature. With reverence the wise pierce the veil and with clear vision contemplate the reality."

15		"This little earth is bathed as of old in the sunlight of its Providential Generator….God continues to love and guide the destinies of His creation."

16		"All is in God and God is in all; all is in all and each is in each."

17		"God is in all. Therefore, all are divinely in the Divine."

18		"Pythagoras taught that both man and the universe were made in the image of God."

19		"In the theology of the Egyptians, goodness takes precedence and all things partake of its nature. Goodness is sought by all. It is the Prime Cause of causes. Goodness is self-diffused and hence exists in all things."

20		“All are dependent upon the one fertilizing principle existing in the Supreme Mind.”

21		"It is seen that all forms are of one substance and all life of one force, and these are co-existent in the nature of the Supreme One."

22		"Every existing creature manifests some aspect of the intelligence or power of the Eternal One."

23		"One of the great Alchemical axioms is, 'Within everything is the seed of everything.'"

24		"Every visible object, every abstract thought, every emotional reaction is but the symbol of an eternal principle."

25		"The God of Pythagoras was the Monad, or the One that is Everything. He described God as the Supreme Mind distributed throughout all parts of the universe – the Cause of all things, the Intelligence of all things, and the Power within all things."